Re: [gentoo-dev] things becoming better and better
On 03/19/2018 08:07 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > Hopefully, moving forward there will be less > human effort required to extend and maintain the tree of packages on > which we depend, and together with QA, huge strides forward are being > made to achieve this end. Indeed, automation of QA and other checks is a big step towards to have the tree in a good shape. (BTW I like the funny name "croaker" in IRC) - and IMO a lot of improvement was made in that area. -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] things becoming better and better
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:48:01PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > honestly. > > > When I started with my tinderbox 2 or 3 years ago I had often a fair > amount of manual work to made to get an image up and running - moslty > tweaking USE flags to get blockers being solved. This yielded into a > growing list of fixed USE flags settings for certain packages. > > But over the time this list became small and smaller and eventually this > month I kicked off the last few lines (famous last words?). > > Said that Gentoo has IMO a lot of success stories to tell too (beside > the usual grumblings and annoyances) - and the quality of the Gentoo > tree is IMO an example of that. > > > /me was just in the mood for a statement like this > > -- > Toralf > PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 > > Toralf, first and foremost, thank you! You efforts have and continue to be successful for Gentoo. I would also echo that the tree is much healthier due to your efforts. Once again, thank you. -Aaron signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] things becoming better and better
Hi Toralf, Toralf Försterwrites: > When I started with my tinderbox 2 or 3 years ago I had often a fair > amount of manual work to made to get an image up and running - moslty > tweaking USE flags to get blockers being solved. This yielded into a > growing list of fixed USE flags settings for certain packages. > > But over the time this list became small and smaller and eventually > this month I kicked off the last few lines (famous last words?). > > Said that Gentoo has IMO a lot of success stories to tell too (beside > the usual grumblings and annoyances) - and the quality of the Gentoo > tree is IMO an example of that. Thanks a ton for the tinkerbox and for the early bug reports! This is the crucial way to keep our tree healthy. Cheers, Benda signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] things becoming better and better
On 19/03/18 18:48, Toralf Förster wrote: > honestly. > > > When I started with my tinderbox 2 or 3 years ago I had often a fair > amount of manual work to made to get an image up and running - moslty > tweaking USE flags to get blockers being solved. This yielded into a > growing list of fixed USE flags settings for certain packages. > > But over the time this list became small and smaller and eventually this > month I kicked off the last few lines (famous last words?). > > Said that Gentoo has IMO a lot of success stories to tell too (beside > the usual grumblings and annoyances) - and the quality of the Gentoo > tree is IMO an example of that. > > > /me was just in the mood for a statement like this > I think I speak for many readers of this list, in echo'ing a big thank-you for your efforts on the Tinderbox project. Gentoo has been slow to move to more automated testing methods, and this is a huge leap forward in this regard. Hopefully, moving forward there will be less human effort required to extend and maintain the tree of packages on which we depend, and together with QA, huge strides forward are being made to achieve this end. It is quite useful to have a consistent means to test packages, and to this end, hopefully we can eliminate some of the randomness that having a very flexible build system creates! Onwards and upwards ... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] things becoming better and better
honestly. When I started with my tinderbox 2 or 3 years ago I had often a fair amount of manual work to made to get an image up and running - moslty tweaking USE flags to get blockers being solved. This yielded into a growing list of fixed USE flags settings for certain packages. But over the time this list became small and smaller and eventually this month I kicked off the last few lines (famous last words?). Said that Gentoo has IMO a lot of success stories to tell too (beside the usual grumblings and annoyances) - and the quality of the Gentoo tree is IMO an example of that. /me was just in the mood for a statement like this -- Toralf PGP 23217DA7 9B888F45 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature